Testimony of Eli Frenkel Bar Levi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gusen camps

Testimony of Eli Frenkel Bar Levi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gusen camps German occupation, 09 September 1939; attitude of the population toward the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; labor unloading coal cars; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz on trains, summer 1943; encounter with Mengele; attitude of the Germans and their collaborators toward the Jews in camp; transfer to Bratislava on foot, 18 January 1944; transfer from Bratislava to Mauthausen by train; transfer to Ebensee camp on trucks; labor digging tunnels; transfer to Gusen I camp; labor in the production of rifles; liberation by the US Army, 05 May 1945. Move to Mauthausen; move to Italy; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, September 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 15 March 1947.